With iPhone 5 pre-orders set to take place tomorrow from Apple at 12:01AM PDT, it looks like the LTE-supported carriers in Canada are preparing themselves for their own pre-orders.
Rogers and Bell previously confirmed pre-orders starting this Friday the 14th as well (look for Telus to do the same), and now some iPhone 5 landing pages have gone live on their respective websites. Nothing really interesting other than the same iPhone 5 marketing materials from Apple.ca, and still no upgrade pricing yet.
Telus (note their pre-ordering page is now back up):
Bell iPhone 5 pre-orders begin Friday both in-store and online (they confirmed this with us):
Koodo iPhone 5 graphic:
Rogers website–updated:
Expect more pages to go live soon. We’ll update this page so stay tuned…
Update: Fido’s landing page below:
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Fido’s reservation page still not working…Will they be late to the party?
works for me….worked yesterday too when i checked it out.
Tried on different platforms, different browsers, still nothing. Weird. And I AM eligible…
well they have any special voice and data plans with 6 GB?
Rogers just upped the hardware upgrade to 3 years now from the 2 that is used to be last year. Unbelievable. Last year when wanting the 4S I was hit with an extra fee so I declined thinking it was only a year upgrade as the previous phones only to find out Rogers upped the time for hardware upgrade. Now they did it again!! But as I am a long time customer of Rogers they took the 3rd year that I am short ( actually 11 months of approx 13.00 a month totalling 143.00 and reduced it to 20.00) . That helps but they sure are making a lot of extra money off of the iphones popularity and we are paying to get it!
So if you didn’t know it is now a 3 year wait time for hardware upgrade – you do now! You can upgrade anytime you want now with this new flex plan but it will cost you 13.00 a month for every month you are short of the 3 years.
Yeah, they’ve bumped the window twice since I got my iphone4 and I too am facing a $143 fee. What did you do or say to get it down to $20? I complained about this a couple of months ago to no avail, but now that the i5 is real, it’s suddenly more urgent. 😉
I just complained to them that is was just another rip off by Rogers to keep adding more cost to the phone. He looked to see how long I was a Rogers customer and I was from 1997 so he said because of that he was able to reduce down to 20.00
Why don’t you pay the fee you cheap ass, who upgrades so quickly anyways? Some people just want everything for free! Or you can complain like this crybaby ?…from a Roger Employee ( do you think WE get breaks on upgrades = NO!) Deal with it.
Who upgrades so quickly? Millions of people, or do you not pay attention to the outside world? I don’t want everything for free – I want Rogers not to change the rules of the game every 8 months. When I bought the iPhone4, the HUP rules were – full subsidy after 24 months on smartphones. So I planned to keep the phone for 2 years. A few months later, the rules changed to 30 months and pay extra to upgrade early. A few months after that the window disappeared – finish your contract or pay extra to upgrade early. So what happened in the meantime? First the phone is paid off in 24 months, then 30, then 36? The payback didn’t change in mid contract – just the rules! If this is truly in place to pay off the phone, then contracts where no phone is involved should be cheaper. But are they? No.
But why am I worrying about a jerk that can’t spell the name of the company he works for, and insults the customers of the company he works for? Take your anger somewhere else, loser.
You could stop giving rogers your money… just a thought.
Shouldn’t have to change companies to get fair treatment… Also just a thought.
No freaking wonder you’re a Rogers employee with that attitude. Absolutely ridiculous.
Rogers is a terrible company ripping off their customers. This is one reason other companies are gaining customers in droves.
Stupid question for the iPhoneinCanada community. When I upgrade from my unlocked iPhone 4S (with its Sim card) to an unlocked iPhone5 (with it microsim card), will there be any issue of keeping the same phone number?
How hard/expensive it is to upgrade from 4S on Telus if I have two years left on my phone?
15$ x month left on contract + cost of new phone. Sell your 4S to cover the costs.
In speaking with a rep at the bell corporate office as I am on a wait list for the new phone he said the new iphone 5 will not be available until october not the September 21 date. Yes the pre order starts tomorrow but they do not have the phones to ship out until October sometime. Big news for those anticipating getting a phone on release day. He said only apple will have them september 21!!! Not cool
I’m not seeing the iPhone 5 graphic yet on Koodo mobile… Where did it come from?
Can u upgrade to the iPhone online with bell?